Golf-club.



No. 786,268. PATENTED APR. 4, 1905. P. B. COREY & Af-G. SAVAGE.

I GOLF GLU'B.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29,1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 4, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRED B. COREY ANl) ARTHUR C. SAVAGE, OF SCI'IENEOTADY, NEW YORK.

GOLF-CLU B.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,268, dated April 4,1905 Application filed July 29,1904. Serial No. 218,592.

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Be it known that we, FRED B. COREY and AirrnunTC. SAVAGE, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Schenectady, in the county of Schenectadyand State of New York, have T with greater accuracy, and thus to placethe ball in the hole with a less number of strokes than with clubsheretofore used.

In playing this game it is customary first to place the club directlyback of the ball to determine if the player is in the proper position inrelation to the ball and if the club is held properly to give thedesired course to the ball when the blow is delivered. The player shouldstand in such a position and hold his club in such a manner as to placethe striking-face of the club at right angles to the desired course ofthe ball, and it therefore becomes-necessary to be able easily todetermine when the club is in this position. Heretofore this fact has;not been generally recognized and noprovision has been made for readilyobserving the angle of the face of the club I with respect to theproposed line of flight of the ball. We have discovered the fact that itis most easy to place the edge of an object perpendicular to a line whenthe object has upon it two parallel straight lines, one of which is theedge referred to, and especially is this the case when these twoparallel straight lines are in close proximity to each other and extendfor a considerable distance either side of theirpoints of intersectionwith the line of reference. After the player is satisfied that hisposition is correct and that he is holding the club in such a Way as togive the desired direction to the ball the club is swung back i from theball and then downward, so as to i strike the ball with thestriking-face in the same relation to the ball that it was before I theclub was swung. It often happens, however, that the club in descendingand swinging toward the ball touches the ground just previous to itscontact with the ball. If the point of contact with the ground isdirectly back of the ball that is, in line with the exclub will not bethrown from its proper angular relation to the proposed course of theball, and when the ball is struck it will be driven in the desireddirection. If, however, the club strikes the ground at a point otherthan in line with the expected point of resistl ance that is, theexpected point of impact between the club and the ball-the face of theclub will be detlecfed from its proper angular relation to tho-desiredcourse of the ball and the expected results will not be secured. Thesefacts have been determined by .caret'ul observation and experiment inthe working out of our invention herein described.

Our invention consists of a club of the class described, the head ofwhich is preferably symmetrical with respect to a central plane, theupper surface of the said head being of such form as to present to theeye of the player two parallel contiguous lines of considerable lengthextending for a considerable distance on either side of the normal pointof impact between the club and the ball, the said lines being contiguousfrom the heel to the toe of the club, the axis of the shaft of the clubbeing included in the plane of symmetry and intersecting the headbetween the two parallel lines referred to and between the center ofmass and the heel of the club.

the head of which has its sole or under surface circular in outline, thecenter of the said circular outline being in a. vertical planeperpendicular to the face of the club at the normal point of impact, sothat when playing on smooth ground the cl". will first strike the grounddirectly back of the ball and in line with its desired cour 3e, thuseliminating the tendency toward any change in the angular Our inventionfurther consists of a club pected point of resistancethe face of therelation between the face of the club and the proposed course of theball, described above.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate our invention, Figure 1is a side view of the head of the golf-club with a portion of the shaft.Fig. 2 is a top View of the same club with the shank sectioned on theline A A of Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a sectional view of the same club, thesection being taken on the line B B in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, C and D represent the two striking faces of the club,the face C being used by a right-handed player and the face D by aleft-handed player. I

E represents the top surface of the head of the club. This surface beingcomparatively long and narrow is bounded on two sidesby the long,parallel, and straight edgesF and G,

' each of which extends in an unbroken line the heel H to the toe J ofthe club, the said edges F and G serving as guides for the properplacing of the club with reference to the ballthat is, placing theseedges perpendicular to the desired course of theball precontinuity ofthe edges C and D, as it has paratory to making a stroke.

The lower surface or sole M of the club is headof the club; but it maybe made sepa- 'rately and attached thereto in any desired manner, or theshaft may be attached directly to the head without the interposition ofa shank without departing from the constructionwhich constitutes ourinvention. That part .of the shank or shaft directly above the surface Cis laterally contracted, as shown at the section A A, so as not tointerrupt the been found that any interruption of the continuity ofthese edges or eitherof them greatly impairs their value as guides inproperly p'lacing the club.

It has been clearly demonstrated by a series of trials by players'highlyskilled in the game of golf and also by players who have not yetattained to any considerable degree of skill that with clubs constructedin accordance with our invention the course of the ball can be tiguousand parallel angular edges formed by the intersection of the sidesurfaces with the top surface and extending from the heel to the toe,and a shank situate between the heel and the toe, the said shank beingso formed as to not interrupt. the continuity of the said edges.

3.'In a golf-club, a head having two contiguous and parallel angularedges formed by the intersection of the side surfaces with the topsurface and extending from the heel to the toe, a shaft the axis ofwhich passes between the said parallel edges, and means for attachingthe shaft to the head without interrup'ting the continuity of the saidedges.

at. In a golf-club, a head having two contiguous and parallel angularedges formed by i the intersection of the side surfaces with the topsurface and extending from the heel to -the toe, and a shank the axialline of which extends between the two paralled edges and between thecenter of mass and the heel.

5. In a golf-club, a head the under surface of which is cylindrical, theaxis of the said cylindrical surface being in a plane passing throughthe normal point of impact and perpendicular to the striking-face.

6. In a golf-club, a head the under surface of which is cylindrical, theaxis of the said cylindrical surface lying in a plane passing throughthe normal point of impact and perpendicular to the striking-face and tothe upper surface of the head.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our names this 26th day of July,1904.

FRED B. COREY. ARTHUR C. SAVAGE.

I/Vitnesses:

. WALTER W. BROWN, 0. LANGDON PERRY.

